drooling

Example Sentences

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I listen now to some commentators drooling over substitutions that change games, and what a genius the manager was to make those changes.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026

After three hellish days in a drooling, Dramamine-induced coma, I failed my check ride.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

Halligan said this type of bacterial or algae poison — which might be surging in the canal due to heat — can cause vomiting, drooling, weakness, seizure and, eventually, death.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2025

Lumbergh, in his two-toned buttoned-down shirt and with his ever-present coffee mug, drooling a series of “mmmkays” and “yeeeahs,” is every middle manager masking their incompetence while lording their authority over deflated subordinates.

From Salon • Mar. 1, 2024

“What about Trist—” “Too busy drooling at his fiancée.”

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir